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exteriority

exteriority

9.9
Being on the outside of something, like a building or object
  • noun
  • /ɪkˌstɪəriˈɔːrɪti/
translation icon : exterioridad
  • The architect emphasized the importance of exteriority in her design, focusing on how buildings relate to their surroundings.
  • interiority and exteriority
  • pure exteriority
  • constitutes the exteriority

I wanted then to connect what I knew about physics into a theory that would connect the interiority and the exteriority.

Examples

  • Early in the novel, he worries about his exteriority and exclusion and watches the city close ranks against him.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The aim of this paper is to illustrate how subjectivity is constituted via exteriorities.

    Academic text (2010)

  • No delimitation of an exteriority, then, provides it with the condition necessary for autonomy.

    Academic text (2008)

  • From exteriority to interiority, material to spiritual, and flesh to spirit.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Language, while constituting the very content of absence, makes absence a pure exteriority.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Still, Hans can only get so close; he is constrained by the limits of technology and, necessarily, by visual exteriority.

    Academic text (2010)

  • In short, absence that cannot be recuperated or recovered informs the exteriority of representation.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Sociology, psychology, and physiology are thus deaf to exteriority.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Meaning and historical change are brought about by exteriority, circumstances, and not primarily by a self-conscious subject's intentionality or interiority.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Exteriority, including the exterior of the church building, evokes materiality, temporality, worldliness, and createdness.

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

exterior
vsexteriority
124 3.1

The outside part of something, like the walls of a house

means the general state of being outside rather than a physical surface
externality
vsexteriority
1 8.4

An outside part of something that you can see

focuses on the basic state of being outside rather than specific features
outsideness
vsexteriority
7.5

Being outside something rather than inside it

is the same meaning presented as a different form
outness
vsexteriority
9.0

Being outside or separate from other things so it is easy to notice

is an alternative form with identical meaning
outwardness
vsexteriority
7.9

Being on or facing the outside of a place

emphasizes the simple state of being outside not direction

Antonyms

interiority
  • Literature
1 9.1

Private thoughts and feelings that a person has

How Outside

exteriority
9.9
interiority
  • Literature
1 9.1

Surface Forms

exteriority singular
exteriorities plural

Morphology

exteriority = exterior (transparent) = exterior + ity

Standard nominalization of the adjective 'exterior' with '-ity' yielding 'the state or quality of being exterior', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Exteriority comes from the part ex- meaning 'out' and the root exterior, which means 'outside' and appears in words like exterior and external. So exteriority simply means being 'outside' or external to something.